Patents by Inventor Sheldon Phillips
Sheldon Phillips has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10703579Abstract: The invention relates to a tipping actuator for a conveyor system that comprises a plurality of article carriers moving on an endless conveyor in a conveying direction, each article carrier having a carrier frame for bearing an article, the carrier frame being pivotally mounted on the article carrier and operable to tip to enable discharge of the article borne on the carrier frame. The tipping actuator comprises a trigger member for contacting the article carriers to tip them and is configured such that, when in a non-contact position, the article carriers are able to at least partly tip towards the trigger member such that the contact portion of the trigger member is received by a portion of the article carrier. In another embodiment, a contact portion of the trigger is sloped with two different gradients. An electromagnet may be used to cause actuation of the trigger.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2018Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: COMPAC TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventors: Isaac James Anstis, Simon Richardson, Sam Voschezang, Sheldon Phillip White
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Patent number: 10672594Abstract: An atmospheric pressure plasma system includes an atmospheric pressure plasma source that generates a glow discharge-type plasma. The atmospheric pressure plasma source comprises a plasma head, a heating element and an active cooling element and the heating element and active cooling element control the plasma head temperature to a set-point temperature independent of variations in plasma generating power or plasma power ON/OFF status.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2017Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: ONTOS EQUIPMENT SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Robert Emmett Hughlett, Matthew Sheldon Phillips, Eric Frank Schulte, Michael Dow Stead
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Publication number: 20190088451Abstract: Methods and systems for thermal management methods to control the rates of chemical reaction at the surface of a substrate being treated by atmospheric plasma. Integrated thermal management includes static heating and cooling of the plasma head and the substrate, as well as dynamic heating and cooling of the substrate surface, before and after the substrate passes the linear aperture of the atmospheric plasma head.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicant: ONTOS Equipment Systems, Inc.Inventors: Eric Frank Schulte, Robert Emmett Hughlett, Michael Dow Stead, Joel Alfred Penelon, Matthew Sheldon Phillips, Daniel Nicholas Pascual
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Publication number: 20180370738Abstract: The invention relates to a tipping actuator for a conveyor system that comprises a plurality of article carriers moving on an endless conveyor in a conveying direction, each article carrier having a carrier frame for bearing an article, the carrier frame being pivotally mounted on the article carrier and operable to tip to enable discharge of the article borne on the carrier frame. The tipping actuator comprises a trigger member for contacting the article carriers to tip them and is configured such that, when in a non-contact position, the article carriers are able to at least partly tip towards the trigger member such that the contact portion of the trigger member is received by a portion of the article carrier. In another embodiment, a contact portion of the trigger is sloped with two different gradients. An electromagnet may be used to cause actuation of the trigger.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2018Publication date: December 27, 2018Applicant: COMPAC TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventors: Isaac James ANSTIS, Simon RICHARDSON, Sam VOSCHEZANG, Sheldon Phillip WHITE
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Patent number: 10011440Abstract: The invention relates to a tipping actuator for a conveyor system that comprises a plurality of article carriers moving on an endless conveyor in a conveying direction, each article carrier having a carrier frame for bearing an article, the carrier frame being pivotally mounted on the article carrier and operable to tip to enable discharge of the article borne on the carrier frame. The tipping actuator comprises a trigger member for contacting the article carriers to tip them and is configured such that, when in a non-contact position, the article carriers are able to at least partly tip towards the trigger member such that the contact portion of the trigger member is received by a portion of the article carrier. In another embodiment, a contact portion of the trigger is sloped with two different gradients. An electromagnet may be used to cause actuation of the trigger.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2016Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: COMPAC TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventors: Isaac James Anstis, Simon Richardson, Sam Voschezang, Sheldon Phillip White
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Publication number: 20180122624Abstract: An atmospheric pressure plasma system includes an atmospheric pressure plasma source that generates a glow discharge-type plasma. The atmospheric pressure plasma source comprises a plasma head, a heating element and an active cooling element and the heating element and active cooling element control the plasma head temperature to a set-point temperature independent of variations in plasma generating power or plasma power ON/OFF status.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2017Publication date: May 3, 2018Applicant: Ontos Equipment Systems, Inc.Inventors: Robert Emmett HUGHLETT, Matthew Sheldon PHILLIPS, Eric Frank SCHULTE, Michael Dow STEAD
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Patent number: 9840376Abstract: The present disclosure relates to apparatus for carrying articles such as fruit for sorting, and in particular though not exclusively to apparatus for singulating the articles. There is provided a singulation apparatus for an article carrying system, the apparatus comprising a flume adapted to receive a plurality of articles at a first end; a fluid inlet associated with the first end and arranged in use to direct a fluid flow to carry the received articles along the flume to a second end; wherein a parameter of the fluid flow is controlled in order to singulate the received articles along the flume. A method for singulation is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2014Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: Compac Technologies LimitedInventors: Sheldon Phillip White, Jonathan Patrick Jackson, Max Hilton Hendrikse, Eric Adrianus Plessius
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Publication number: 20170190517Abstract: The invention relates to a tipping actuator for a conveyor system that comprises a plurality of article carriers moving on an endless conveyor in a conveying direction, each article carrier having a carrier frame for bearing an article, the carrier frame being pivotally mounted on the article carrier and operable to tip to enable discharge of the article borne on the carrier frame. The tipping actuator comprises a trigger member for contacting the article carriers to tip them and is configured such that, when in a non-contact position, the article carriers are able to at least partly tip towards the trigger member such that the contact portion of the trigger member is received by a portion of the article carrier. In another embodiment, a contact portion of the trigger is sloped with two different gradients. An electromagnet may be used to cause actuation of the trigger.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2016Publication date: July 6, 2017Applicant: COMPAC TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventors: Isaac James ANSTIS, Simon RICHARDSON, Sam VOSCHEZANG, Sheldon Phillip WHITE
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Patent number: 9527680Abstract: The invention relates to a tipping actuator for a conveyor system that comprises a plurality of article carriers moving on an endless conveyor in a conveying direction, each article carrier having a carrier frame for bearing an article, the carrier frame being pivotally mounted on the article carrier and operable to tip to enable discharge of the article borne on the carrier frame. The tipping actuator comprises a trigger member for contacting the article carriers to tip them and is configured such that, when in a non-contact position, the article carriers are able to at least partly tip towards the trigger member such that the contact portion of the trigger member is received by a portion of the article carrier. In another embodiment, a contact portion of the trigger is sloped with two different gradients. An electromagnet may be used to cause actuation of the trigger.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2013Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: COMPAC TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventors: Isaac James Anstis, Simon Richardson, Sam Voschezang, Sheldon Phillip White
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Publication number: 20160052729Abstract: The present disclosure relates to apparatus for carrying articles such as fruit for sorting, and in particular though not exclusively to apparatus for singulating the articles. There is provided a singulation apparatus for an article carrying system, the apparatus comprising a flume adapted to receive a plurality of articles at a first end; a fluid inlet associated with the first end and arranged in use to direct a fluid flow to carry the received articles along the flume to a second end; wherein a parameter of the fluid flow is controlled in order to singulate the received articles along the flume. A method for singulation is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventors: Sheldon Phillip White, Jonathan Patrick Jackson, Max Hilton Hendrikse, Eric Adrianus Plessius
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Publication number: 20150232285Abstract: The invention relates to a tipping actuator for a conveyor system that comprises a plurality of article carriers moving on an endless conveyor in a conveying direction, each article carrier having a carrier frame for bearing an article, the carrier frame being pivotally mounted on the article carrier and operable to tip to enable discharge of the article borne on the carrier frame. The tipping actuator comprises a trigger member for contacting the article carriers to tip them and is configured such that, when in a non-contact position, the article carriers are able to at least partly tip towards the trigger member such that the contact portion of the trigger member is received by a portion of the article carrier. In another embodiment, a contact portion of the trigger is sloped with two different gradients. An electromagnet may be used to cause actuation of the trigger.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2013Publication date: August 20, 2015Applicant: COMPAC SORTING EQUIPMENT LIMITEDInventors: Isaac James Anstis, Simon Richardson, Sam Voschezang, Sheldon Phillip White
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Patent number: 8758556Abstract: A method for inhibiting the formation, deposition and adherence of calcium salt scale to metallic and other surfaces in the equipment, vessels and/or piping of a chemical pulp process facility comprising adding an effective scale inhibiting amount of a composition to the alkaline aqueous mixture in the digester of said chemical pulping process. Said composition consists of at least one phosphonate component (I) and at least one component (II) consisting of at least one carboxylated fructan compound.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2010Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Dequest AGInventor: Sheldon Phillip Verrett
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Publication number: 20120160438Abstract: A method for inhibiting the formation, deposition and adherence of calcium salt scale to metallic and other surfaces in the equipment, vessels and/or piping of a chemical pulp process facility comprising adding an effective scale inhibiting amount of a composition to the alkaline aqueous mixture in the digester of said chemical pulping process. Said composition consists of at least one phosphonate component (I) and at least one component (II) consisting of at least one carboxylated fructan compound.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2010Publication date: June 28, 2012Inventor: Sheldon Phillip Verrett
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Patent number: 7300542Abstract: Compositions and method of improving inhibition of calcium salt scale formation under the conditions found in chemical pulp processes in which an effective amount of selected phosphonates or phosphonate blends is admixed with the black liquor composition recovered from the digester in a chemical pulping process. The compositions and method are especially well suited for use in the Kraft pulping process.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2005Date of Patent: November 27, 2007Assignee: Thermophos Trading GmbHInventors: Jacob Owen Thompson, Sheldon Phillip Verrett, Jeremy E. Loy, Steven John Severtson
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Patent number: 7172677Abstract: Compositions and method for improving inhibition of calcium salt scale formation under the conditions found in chemical pulp processes in which an effective amount of selected phosphonates or phosphonate blends is admixed with the aqueous digester composition in a chemical pulping process during the digestion stage. The compositions and method are especially well suited for use in the Kraft pulping process.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2004Date of Patent: February 6, 2007Assignee: Solutia Inc.Inventors: Jacob Owen Thompson, Sheldon Phillip Verrett, Steven John Severtson, Jeremy E. Loy
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Patent number: 7097739Abstract: Compositions and method for improving properties of pulp produced or reducing the digester cycle time in alkaline chemical pulping processes in which an effective amount of at least one selected phosphonate or carboxylate compound or mixtures thereof is admixed with the alkaline aqueous mixture in the digester of the chemical pulping process. The compositions and method are especially well suited for use in the Kraft pulping process.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2005Date of Patent: August 29, 2006Assignee: Solutia Inc.Inventors: Jacob Owen Thompson, Sheldon Phillip Verrett, Wei Li, Ulrike Waltraud Tschimer
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Patent number: 6890404Abstract: Compositions and method for improving properties of pulp produced or reducing the digester cycle time in alkaline chemical pulping processes in which an effective amount of at least one selected phosphonate or carboxylate compound or mixtures thereof is admixed with the alkaline aqueous mixture in the digester of the chemical pulping process. The compositions and method are especially well suited for use in the Kraft pulping process.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2002Date of Patent: May 10, 2005Assignee: Solutia, Inc.Inventors: Jacob Owen Thompson, Sheldon Phillip Verrett, Wei Li, Ulrike Waltraud Tschimer
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Patent number: 6869503Abstract: Compositions and method of improving inhibition of calcium salt scale formation under the conditions found in chemical pulp processes in which an effective amount of selected phosphonates or phosphonate blends is admixed with the black liquor composition recovered from the digester in a chemical pulping process. The compositions and method are especially well suited for use in the Kraft pulping process.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2002Date of Patent: March 22, 2005Assignee: Solutia, Inc.Inventors: Jacob Owen Thompson, Sheldon Phillip Verrett, Jeremy E. Loy, Steven John Severtson
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Publication number: 20040256070Abstract: Compositions and method for improving inhibition of calcium salt scale formation under the conditions found in chemical pulp processes in which an effective amount of selected phosphonates or phosphonate blends is admixed with the aqueous digester composition in a chemical pulping process during the digestion stage. The compositions and method are especially well suited for use in the Kraft pulping process.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2004Publication date: December 23, 2004Inventors: Jacob Owen Thompson, Sheldon Phillip Verrett, Steven John Severtson, Jeremy E. Loy
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Patent number: RE41552Abstract: Compositions and method for improving properties of pulp produced or reducing the digester cycle time in alkaline chemical pulping processes in which an effective amount of at least one selected phosphonate or carboxylate compound or mixtures thereof is admixed with the alkaline aqueous mixture in the digester of the chemical pulping process. The compositions and method are especially well suited for use in the Kraft pulping process.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2007Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignee: Thermphos Trading GmbHInventors: Wei Li, Ulrike Waltraud Tschirner, Sheldon Phillip Verrett, Jacob Owen Thompson